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From: jackd@copper.WR.TEK.COM (Jack Decker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Post Script
Keywords: ps post script postscript
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Date: 12 Oct 89 16:11:28 GMT
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In article <28027@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> flowers@lanai.UUCP (Margot Flowers) writes:
>
> >..., check out Emerald City's Smart Art program.  Like LaserTalk, it
> >requires a LaserWriter and a little fiddling with the EPS file, but it does
> >produce an image you can see on the screen as well as paste ...
>
>Are there any ways to view a post script file on a freestanding mac?i

Definitely.  If your PostScript file has a bit map drawing associated with it
(Illustrater or Freehand files, for example) you can get a preview of the image
in Word, PageMaker, Xpress and many other types of documents.  If your PS file
was generated by a non-Mac program, however, Smart Art is the only way I know of
to generate the preview image.  Although it requires a LaserWriter initially,
once the bitmap has been generated from the PS file, a "freestanding" Mac will
display the preview image instead of an empty bounding box (or hundreds of lines
of text in Word).  

Pretty neat feature of Smart Art and totally undocumented.  (The program is
marketed as a special effects generator.)

jack decker
Tektronix
Beaverton, OR